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It’s Not Just Breweries—State Brewers’ Guilds Are Pivoting, Too. Here’s How.

State brewers’ guilds work for the common interest of independent breweries, but the pandemic dealt a severe blow to their ability to raise money and operate. Here’s how they’re getting by—and how breweries and suppliers can get involved.

Joe Stange Jan 21, 2021 - 11 min read

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Sherry Wohlgemuth was working with Missouri brewers to organize what should have become the inaugural Show Me Craft Beer Festival in July 2020. The name wasn’t quite finalized, but they’d picked out a venue—in the centrally located college town of Columbia—and she was working on the promotional materials.

That was in March. You know what happened next.

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